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• absolute address 

  absolute address A unique number that specifies a unique location within the address space where an operand is to be found/deposited, or where...

  01/01/04 by JOHN DAINTITH · More from publication

• access path 

  access path The name given to the set of names of devices, directories , subdirectories , and a specific file , by means of which the...

  01/01/04 by JOHN DAINTITH · More from publication

• actuator 

  actuator of a disk drive. The mechanism that causes the head carriage and heads to be moved to the desired track. The voice coil actuator gains...

  01/01/04 by JOHN DAINTITH · More from publication

• adjacency structure 

  adjacency structure (adjacency list) A means of representing a graph . The adjacency structure corresponding to a path G is the set {Adj( v )...

  01/01/04 by JOHN DAINTITH · More from publication

• aliasing 

  aliasing A distorting effect caused by sampling an image at too low a rate. When a signal is undersampled, high-frequency components cannot be...

  01/01/04 by JOHN DAINTITH · More from publication

• applications program 

  applications program (or application program) Any program that is specific to the particular role that a given computer performs within a given...

  01/01/04 by JOHN DAINTITH · More from publication

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